The more I think about this stuff the more k feel we should just sign Stamkos. Sure he’s older but he won’t cost assets if he hits free agency and I mean we are but we aren’t a young team. Our core guys are stammers age other than Filip.
I'd like Stamkos but I think signing him is pretty much a pipedream. Never say never but outside of us offering way more than the market I don't really see the appeal for him to come here.
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He would accomplish making our team better. Which might help us win a round in the playoffs. It's not like any of our younger players have any chance of being as good as him.
Stamkos is a 30-40 G a season player that would help insulate and lead the young up and coming core. A 3-4 year contract would fit in pretty good with L'Heureux, Kemell, Wood as they gain experience and start pushing into the NHL. We have room for 1 more vet without really pushing out any expected NHL transitions
Whose place is he taking? The kids can’t even push 4 AHL tweeners out of the lineup. Adding more talent up top pushes everyone down the roster making it better and forcing guys out of the lineup who had no business being in it in the first place.
Didn't we sign O'Reilly and Schenn for that?
Some of the kids won't be waiver exempt this time. So we'll be Tolvanening them.
I do fully expect that to happen with at least 1 of them. I don't know which one yet, but out of Afanaseyev, Tomasino, and Parssinen my money is Tomasino is in the lead. The others may follow later.
I know everyone else loves Afanaseyev, but I'm still hesitant on his game translating to anything more than a Sherwood type player.
I think Tomasino is for sure gone before next season starts. If we don't trade him this offseason than I think he's waived after camp and claimed by someone. I just don't see anyway he magically transforms his game into what the team wants out of him this offseason and now he's got even more guys battling for spots with him. Same goes for Glass. Parsinnen has the playstyle that I think he'll be able to stick around but this year was rough for him developmentally so who knows. Afanasyev has good odds of getting waived but I think he's low enough profile that he may be able to sneak through at the beginning of the season.
Despite complaining that we didn't bring him up this season I'm not really all that high on Afanasyev either. He's realistically most likely a 4th liner but I think he does still have the potential for more and I wish we'd given him a bit more opportunity this year. He did exactly what we wanted from him in the AHL so now the question is can he go from tweener to bona fide NHLer.
Yeah, I'm not sure ANYBODY really "loves" Afanaseyev? Most people just figure he'll be a 4th liner or tweener. But he's OUR 4th liner, produced by our system, and since he's young and hasn't played much here yet, there is at least some tiny sliver of hope for a little more? Not any actual belief or expectation of more. But even that tiny glimmer of as-yet unextinguished hope is more than we have for the rest of the older tweener grinders who are on the team.
I am hopeful he has a little more finish, and maybe has a chance at 2nd PP unit with his shot. I am not expecting it though. I believe 3rd line winger with 15-15 is his upside.Yeah, I'm not sure ANYBODY really "loves" Afanaseyev? Most people just figure he'll be a 4th liner or tweener. But he's OUR 4th liner, produced by our system, and since he's young and hasn't played much here yet, there is at least some tiny sliver of hope for a little more? Not any actual belief or expectation of more. But even that tiny glimmer of as-yet unextinguished hope is more than we have for the rest of the older tweener grinders who are on the team.
I'm not sure I've noticed quite the physical element to Afanaseyev's game, though? He has size, but I don't find he's at all aggressive about using it? I'm not saying he needs to have that either. His hits/60 in his cameos the last couple seasons has been solid. Just I wasn't thinking that it's necessarily going to be a key part of his game... ie not like a Trenin or Joshua type of player anyway.
You're missing the point from three sides.
Tomasino outplayed all of those guys in terms of points per 60 last year. Pärssinen looked good but was dicked around and eventually his treatment was admitted by the coaching staff that they didn't know what to do with him. Afanasyev got whopping two games (less than the names listed below) and was thrown in the dog house after the Stars defeat where he was the only player not in the minus column. Glass - by some miracle - was the worst "younger" player we had all year and played the most.
Glass wasn't good in terms of stats and got injured again. If we get past those, he bought into the system and was doing what was asked of him according to the coaches. He clearly wasn't scoring enough. Ironically, when he finally broke through and had a hat trick, he was perma-benched.
